![]() Wonder Woman 23 sees the end of our "primary" storyline, "The Lies/The Truth," and Wonder Woman 24 serves as something of an epilogue to that tale. Our success in doing so is measured, of course, by you. ![]() "Bring her back to her core," was what Geoff Johns told me. We started Rebirth with a specific, though fairly broad, mandate from DC. That she's turned 75 during the course of our run is–to ruin the analogy–icing on the cake. Most of us don't get a single bite at the apple, let alone two, you know? To get that opportunity at a time when Diana is rising to such (long-overdue) prominence makes that apple all the sweeter. To have had that opportunity is something that I doubted I would ever get again. All any of us who've worked on the book this last year have wanted is to serve her well, to illuminate what we so absolutely believe makes Wonder Woman such a remarkable and unique and timeless and important character. ![]() Writing Diana again has been an amazing experience, on the level of a dream-come-true. I just can't maintain the pace on the title while also fulfilling my commitments to my other collaborators. Wonder Woman 25 will be my last issue on the title, at least for the time being.īefore we get to rampant speculation, this is my decision. ![]() ![]() Below, you can read Rucka's statement on his departure, but the above link to his twitter has even more, including his praise and thanks for his collaborators on the series. ![]()
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![]() ![]() When Maria finds the fictional Hathorne in Salem, he exiles her to a hunting cabin in the woods with her baby, echoing “The Scarlet Letter,” written by the actual Hathorne’s great-great-grandson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who added the "w" to his surname, perhaps to escape the infamy of his stern forbear.Įven though Maria and her baby are sidelined to the woods, she survives by making soap and carries herself proudly in the village. John Hathorne was a historical figure, a magistrate and merchant who became one of the most famously relentless judges in the Salem witch trials. An open man and a talkative storyteller, Samuel falls in love with his healer, but Maria is determined to find the father of her baby. She uses the herbal knowledge she learned from Hannah to cure him. She gains passage, with her baby Faith, on a ship whose captain is a Sephardic Jew who escaped the Spanish Inquisition, and whose son Samuel is ill with what Maria recognizes as dengue fever. Maria has a baby out of wedlock, ending her indentured service. Hathorne leaves after several days to return to his home in staid Salem. Toward the end of her servitude, at 15, she is seduced by 37-year-old John Hathorne, a successful trader from Massachusetts, arrived in this “land of oddities and miracles” for business. Once on the Caribbean island, she will work as a family’s indentured servant for five years. ![]() Not so attached to his newly acquainted daughter, he sells Maria in exchange for her boat passage to Curaçao. ![]() ![]() ![]() Milley defended the curriculum and said: “I’ve read Mao Zedong. “This came to me from cadets, from families, from soldiers with their alarm and their concern at how divisive this type of teaching is that is rooted in Marxism, that classifies people along class lines, an entire race of people as oppressor and oppressed,” said Waltz. Michael Waltz, a Republican representative from Florida and a former Green Beret, raised concerns of critical race theory being included on a syllabus at West Point. Milley was joined by the defense secretary, Lloyd Austin. Milley said service members should be open-minded and widely read because they “come from the American people”. “I personally find it offensive that we are accusing the United States military … of being ‘woke’ or something else because we’re studying some theories that are out there,” he said. At a defense budget hearing, the four-star general responded to Republican lawmakers who implied the Pentagon was accepting of critical race theory, decrying the inclusion in West Point courses, and saying that embracing the concept would weaken the military’s mission. ![]() ![]() Now the debate is seeping into the military. ![]() The methodology has been misinterpreted and used as a talking point by Republicans in more than 20 states to propose legislation that would limit discussions about race and systemic oppression in classrooms, arguing it is divisive. ![]() ![]() ![]() Praise for Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet ![]() His search will take him on a journey to revisit the sacrifices he has made for family, for love, for country. Now, forty years later, Henry explores the hotel’s basement for the Okabe family’s belongings and for a long-lost object whose value he cannot even begin to measure. After Keiko and her family were evacuated to the internment camps, she and Henry could only hope that their promise to each other would be kept. As the owner displays and unfurls a Japanese parasol, Henry, a Chinese American, remembers a young Japanese American girl from his childhood in the 1940s-Keiko Okabe, with whom he forged a bond of friendship and innocent love that transcended the prejudices of their Old World ancestors. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has discovered the belongings of Japanese families who were sent to internment camps during World War II. ![]() In 1986, Henry Lee joins a crowd outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle’s Japantown. “An impressive, bitter, and sweet debut that explores the age-old conflicts between father and son, the beauty and sadness of what happened to Japanese Americans in the Seattle era during World War II, and the depths and longing of deep-heart love.”-Lisa See. ![]() ![]() They are told that they must carry a “product”, they are blindfolded during the birth, then it happens twice more. The understand pregnancy but don’t realize that it means they will have a child. It’s not like they woke up on e day and where all “What the heck? What’s this bump on my stomach?”. Much as the citizens of the community lack knowledge of numerous aspects of life, the birth mothers are oblivious to their pregnancy, and that they will have a child. As a birth mother, she has been artificially inseminated and will have a child, one of the three who she is fated to bear during her few short years before she is subjected to a lifetime of physical labor jobs. ![]() If you are not familiar with the previous stories in The Giver quartet, please read the corresponding reviews)īack in the good old community, there is a girl called Claire. (Please note that I will be building off of concepts already discussed in past reviews. ![]() After a sequel and third installment, Lowry does it again with her story, Son. ![]() But to do it multiple times over is something that only the likes of Lois Lowry could do. When an author can mirror the magnificence of their initial novel with a sequel of equal caliber, it is nothing short of magic. ![]() ![]() It was such a pleasant surprise! No matter how the characters were described, in my mind all I could see was Cary Grant and Claudette Colbert. I never expected a screwball comedy in a historical romance novel. He thought I must have chosen a new genre. I snorted and guffawed enough that my husband couldn't believe I was actually listening to a historical romance. I laughed so many times, which was wholly unexpected. She was perfect for this book! So much of the humor was in the delivery, and Sarah Coomes was spot on.ĭid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry? Her pacing tends to the over-dramatic, with oddly-timed, suspenseful pauses in her phrasing. ![]() Sarah Coomes is like the William Shatner of historical romance narration. What about Sarah Coomes’s performance did you like? I did not expect a historical romance to be so laugh-out-loud funny. What other book might you compare The Countess to and why? Screwball comedy will make you laugh out loud! ![]() ![]() Exploring themes of war, colonialism, and the experience of being a stranger in a strange land, Seven Pillars of Wisdom was rewritten multiple times from memory when Lawrence lost the original manuscript. Prior to his experiences during the first world war, Lawrence was working on a book with the same title about seven great cities of the Middle East, and although he abandoned that project, he decided to reuse the title. ![]() Completed in 1922 and published in 1926, it takes its title from a quote from the Book of Proverbs - “Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars”. Lawrence, detailing the time he spent serving as a liaison officer with rebel forces during the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire, between 19. ![]() Seven Pillars of Wisdom is an autobiography by British soldier T.E. ![]() ![]() ![]() It helps to report instances of spam and posts/comments that break the rules. ![]() Violation of the rules will result in post removal and in some cases bans. Selling artwork, merch, or similar items is prohibited. Please read the sidebar before asking where to begin reading.Īll self-promotion must be disclosed and kept within reasonable limits. Submissions must be directly related to Lovecraft, his work, and contemporaries.Īrtwork posts are only allowed to be posted under certain restrictions. No restricted content such as: memes, tattoos, jokes, apparel, AI images, etc. Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! Lovecraft, this is your stop for all of his outstanding works and weird fiction in general! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This would include her selection of Palin-esque Democrat Tara Meyers as her new vice president, to head a startling, two-party Unity ticket. A debatable emergency decision by Defense Secretary Roger Taylor thrusts all three women into the limelight at an unfortunate time, when Charlotte is making important choices for the next four years. She gets no help at all from her husband, Peter, whose affair with Dale becomes public just in time to complicate the whole situation. Ambushed like all presidents by the sometimes murky details of other people’s lives and intentions, Charlotte struggles to bring her first term to a fitting close with the hope of running again. This story instead covers the private lives of three women: the first female president, Charlotte Kramer her White House chief of staff, Melanie Kingston and Dale Smith, White House correspondent. ![]() Wisely, though, she doesn’t push the protocol. Bush), as well as a campaign advisor for John McCain and Sarah Palin, she has pretty much been there and known that. As a former White House Communications Director (under George W. Wallace didn’t have to interview anyone but herself about internal operations within the 18 acres of the title-that is, the White House. There is one thing you can be sure of in Nicolle Wallace’s debut novel: Every background detail and procedural item is accurate to the very last degree. ![]() ![]() ![]() A message from Paris warns Allied Intelligence of something big in the works-something which might have serious implications for D-Day. Here's the original synopsis when the book was first published (courtesy of McCammon's site). The novel was first published in 1989 and was optioned by screenwriters Bradley and Kevin Marcus who penned the script picked up by Morgan Productions. Now comes news that McCammon's "The Wolf's Hour" has been picked up by Universal.Ĭhris Morgan Productions will shepherd the project for the studio. ![]() His novels are ripe for the screen (just like Richard Laymon's novels, another untapped source of goodness). ![]() For years and years and years and years, I've wondered why author Robert McCammon wasn't being adapted left and right by Hollywood ( it was the subject of this editorial). ![]() |